A CUBAN GOVERNOR,
GENERAL TACON WAS A BENEVOLENT
SORT OF TYRANT.
fle Administered the Island Well, Put Down
Oppression, Released the Unjustly Impris-
ened, and Was Accessible to All
In the Century there la an article on
“Life and Society in Old Cuba,” made
up of extracts from the journal of
Jonathan 8. Jenkins, an American
painter of miniatures, written in 185V.
Mr. Jenkins says:
Prior to the administration of Gen-
eral Tacon In Cuba (who
office as Captain-General in 1834), par.
ticularly during the rule of Vivas, so
ciety had become so disorganized that
neither life, property, nor social rights
could be sald to have any protection.
Truly “wight was right,” and this was
the only law. The robber, the pirate,
and the assassin were recognized in-
stitutions, and pone dared oppose
them.
required untliinching courage, stern
All these virtues were found in
Tacon, as the sequel will
sion.
General
show,
One of cares,
visit
Tacon's first
after his appointment,
thre state prisons, He
every prisoner as to the
public
was to
cause of his
there. He found that some
had been imprisoned
years, their bodies wasted
with wretchedness and their
crushed with despair. Having
friends to be interested.in thelr fate,
they had been forgotten by the world.
This was a means with the
wealthy
or a rival.
One of
had been
of them
twenty
over
favorite
the prisoners stated
the Count of Philameno, who was then
auditor of war under Tacon. The
count owned him six thousand dollars
and to avold making
had him imprisoned
castle, Tacon mortified and sur
prised, and cautioned the man to
sure and teil him the truth, for he
determined the matter
thoroughly. soner insisted that
what said was true. Thereupon
Tacon bad the Count of Philameno
summoned to meet the prisoner before
him the next day. As the captain
general had before i per
sistently to or the
presents of the nobility,
flattered by the
at the time appointed,
dressed up. as if on a
mony. TI mer
he arrived, and he start
his vietim face to
a stern and searching
count, “Deo
pointing to the
“Yes; 1 think
majordomo,” he
fous look.
“You had him
said Tacon,
him.
“Yes, {
“And the
“Because he in
t rnd
for services,
payment in the
was
be
was
to investigate
The pri
he
refused
isgits
the
100s,
ive
rece
count was
sumn and came
very muca
visit of cero
when
meeting
with
the
in?’
1e prise was there
ed at
face, Tacon,
look, asked
know that mu
prisoner
you
he was once
an
my
replied, with anx
risoned,
kly asked
dnd I am
weted
was qu
guitlted me,
Han must he prots
count,
reason. You
thousand dollars
serviews and bad him
avoid payment. This
be paid instantly”: and with
hiz pen Tacon calculated the amount
of the debt with compound interest
“This debt must be pald forthwith.”
The evidently surprised
again fearful, replied:
“Your Excellency, I' will
home and with him.”
“No, sir.” firmly responded General
Tacon, “Here is a pen. Write to
your secretary to bring the money
here; this matter must be disposed of
before we separate.”
The count did as he was ordered.
and the secretary brought the money.
The majordomo was pald and
leased, and then the noble was
mitted to return home, hombled
filled with the bitterest enim! ¥ to
con and his justice. This affair
noised abroad, and created a
sensation among the nobility, who had
heretofore enjoyed perfect impunity
in their wrongs to the humble classes,
Tocon was warned of the danger Le
incurred in thus antagonizing them,
as they had often procured the re.
moval of his predecessors for this very
reason, He then announced that
supreme power had been
on him as the only condition
which he would accept the office
captain-general of Cuba,
not the
In SIX
That is
this
for honest
prisoned to
true
owed
debit must
count,
return
settle
fe
per.
but
Ta-
was
great
consternation to the upper classes,
The Count of Philnmeno was
content to acquieace in the just sen-
tence of Tgeon, but manifested
hatred on erent occasions,
caused Taq to Issue an
“the count Must not hereafter
threshold of his own house, but
ditor of
war in his residence.” This
a close prisoner under this order unt'l
his death, about two years later,
Tacon sought in every way to en
tourage the people to make their
wrongs known to him. and to this end
be removed all the restraints and cere.
monies with which rulers are usually
surrounded, and made himself acces
sible to all ?
Fruit Consumption in Australia
There is no portion of the globe In
which fruit Is more abundant or more
sitensively consumed than In Aus
tralis, Pineapples, grapes, and ba-
oauas dare grown in
grapes, sranges, apples, and om
in New South Wales and South Aud
tralia; grapes in Western Australia,
berries, and currants in Tasmania,
The supply is so ample that during
certain seasons of the year pineapples
may be purchased for three cents
ench, grapes for eight cents a pound,
mandarin oranges for one cent a doz
en, and bananas for two cents a doz
en, The belief, once almost universal,
among ignorant people that fruit free.
lv eaten was conducive to intestinal
disorders, is now thoroughly explod-
ed. In Australia, where its consumi»
tion Is 1 viversal and unrestricted, the
death rote 1s notably low, not only
smong itive born, but among forelga
8 well. In all the towns of
shops where for twelve cents may be
had a large plate of fruit with a cup
of tea or coffee or milk, Moreover,
the consumer is allowed to have as
much frult, without extra charge,
above the original portion, as he may
desire. A writer in an English tech-
nical journal, in speaking of Austra.
lian fruit lunches, says that those who
patronize them are mostly employees
or mercantile estab
summer, fruit ara
For women, there
rooms, In which the
with ferns and
ire women,
white aprons
In ices
largely consumed.
are many tea
tables are decorated
palms, The attendants
who wear black dresses,
and caps. The charges are six cents
for a cup of tea or coffee, bread and
and fruit. No tips are given,
for tips are unknown in Australia, ex-
hotels. The Austra
large consumers of
mutton of the country Is
of England. The lax
and fruit proba
with !
The
as fine as that
use of flesh
much
development
and fem
ish has,
bly,
%
hile
remarks
Australians
to do the
of
¥
aie,
male
Aluminum Tags for Fish,
United
arrivid
Rutter, assistant
States fish commissioner,
in San Franc after months
of experimental work and scientific
investigation on the Sacramento river,
He has been studying the
thelr habits and their develop
Rutter has made two rowboat rips
dower the river, Red
Biuff to Sacramento second
from Redding to the same
He says that the river
stocked whh 40 000 008)
Claude
has
cia §
I8CO severa
salmon,
nent
the first from
and the
destination
young
during the pu
novel part of
salmon will
tor
ist few months
his labors Is
The adult
three-quat nch plates,
um
noted
ordingly.
quested to rétanrn all tagged
river the event of a
gling.
In order
growth of
in § 00
specimens of
their adipose fins
The
ont
nature
adiposs
of
single
less fish found
idence that
Re
bast 0%
1808, and his rate
judged
ans
Rai
accordingly
lief |
soon
turn until it
afta
has re
the
ing aad eutting wi
4] abit
be ascertained
San Francizeo Ch
may
perts
I onicle,
Canary Women.
Uncle Sam
who knows
Now that
nexing mood,
fabled Atlantis of Plato
of Hesper and St. Bran
Isle, all Known to modern
the Canary Is
t=a1
ile a fons
as
become
Ktntoa? Certainly
offers a more
primitive won
When
hy Jean
baron.
11., of
two re
mainland.
ent laws, habits
possessed of
gendered cot
The Inhabitants of the
nary Islands small
goetie, and amiable; some of
them even had blue eyes and red hair.
In Feurtoventura and Lanzarote they
were taller, darker and more indolent,
lazily obeying their hereditary rul
whether the latter were men
men, The dark skinned inhabl
to be of Arabic or
sunposed
Phoenician origin. They were ¢
the
de
144¥
Castile
sees wh
the
mt
sfant war!
westeg
were fair
brave
ty
aor wo
is
of
wm
indolent than the Spaniards,
the
and then
airer race was subjugated:
A Tablet for an lavalid,
There are some invalids who are
compelled to occupy a recumbent posi
tion who find a tablet fixed to a writ.
ing-board a great convenlence., Take
eighteen inches long and cover it with
soft cotton Hannel, and attach the tab.
let to it. The board ean he propped
up at any desired angle, so that it can
be used by a person Iylug on his left
side. The lower part of the board
will serve as a partial rest for the
head and arm. It Is a mistake for an
invalid or any one to make much use
of his eyes while In a recumbent posi
tion. Reading or writing in a recum-
bent position are always prohibited
by oculists, even where there is only
a slight trouble with the eyes.
About 65,000,000 pounds of beet.
sugnr were Taised in California last
year.
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
One out of every six inhabitants of
france has an account in the State
savings bank.
This Is a great
her wheatflields and
she has glory and money
country. Between
the battlefields
y to burn.
suggest that a new
needed wield
concert Eu
Recent events
leader may
the baton
rope,
fo
of
soon be
over the
disarmament plan would
German emperor with an
pile of old junk on his
tussin’s
leave the
alarming
hands,
Events have spoken so loudly that
there 1s no need of people who used
to make sport of the United States
navy to go to the trouble of making re-
tractions, :
Admiral Dewey's comfort when he
returns to this country would be great
ly enhanced if he could find some man
who looks dike him do the band
shaking
to
It is said that many people in Maine
are so offended at the advertisements
painted on boards and fences along
country roads that they refuse to deal
with the firms which so advertise
recently
caused in a Chicago conn RP. R.
Barnes, a prominent lawyer of that
city, brought
because his
tomn-pingue
It
format
ion of
trouble was
. when
Considerable
suit against a butched
meat caused “schiler
colisteritis,
i8 a humorist
fon
Admir:
ous kissing
af 11 80
il Dew
it would seem
wottld have pl
Jant Admiral
Medical exami
11
swollars so
mucl
hospital,
the
ouprat y few
Wis given Keen
heerful, tl
enjoved
‘ al perform ances and
and «
orou ghiy
iver exocug
were lively variauts on the sti
v
did much to mainta
the command,
elevating
ng
s
'
plan for
ulated by a well-Ki
He proposes
fecide by
year who the
country is, amd that
mm ver
£0l
Fel
highest
ng
i= claimed for the
induce had men
that “complimentars
ved had just
begun to be tad not general
iy reco
create a
rolled ar
eiving the
on the ensul
it
would
and
rece]
. 3 1
shah iru
hanged
that it
grate
vole
YOoles
be
Sie
by those who
but
gnizewl as such,
desire within
the
were
world ted to
to
well-behaved
Iw en.
them
nonug
A Chicago police justice holds that
the lobster” applied to a
man being not one of reproach, in
sult or and that the person to
whom it is applied has no reason
complain. As the lobster minds
own business and is one of the most
important and cherished elements of
civilization, a contumelions use of its
name is not to be admitted, sayx the
New York San. with quiet humor. To
enil a man a “lobster” ought to imply
that he is a public benefactor and &
person ol taste, Even slang should
respect one of the chief characters of
sea and land. ,
word bin
Ix
abuse,
itu
The Treasury Department figifhes up
the deposits of
banks at an aggregate of nearly two
billion dollars, The exact figures are
$1,036.376,085. This represents the
savings of more that 5.000.000 people.
It averages $372 for every depositor.
This is a remarkable showing. It ie
an astounding testimony to the com.
fort and economy of our peuple, says
the Boston Post. One in every fifteen
of our population, counting infants
and children, as well as men and wo.
men, have something of their earn.
ings put by for a rainy day. This can
jo fiona nde
of the earth.’ Nor in those other coun:
in which “the savings bank oe
posits, And'in Prussia there are more
depositors In savings
the United Btates, but the aggregate
famount thus deposited is less than
one-third as great, In fact, the
| ted States stands fairly at the
{in this great testi of popular well bes
ling
As plum-trees have been taught, in
ian arid section of Texas, to bore for a
| subterranean water supply, so fruits,
grains and the like have learned to ac-
Lecommaoidate themselves to the climate
of Minnesota, A few years ago corn
fconld not be raised in that state, Now
Lit is matured all the way to the north
ern boundary. The hardy varieties
{ which were introduced have learned to
{do their growing and ripening within
the season's Hmits, In experiments in
with fruit trees, it
that the plum and
{apple trees brought from more north
ern latitudes begin to
{tions for winter about
| August, while
tern latitudes «
until the cold weather
them,
northern
not injured by
ditions
learn
the same line made
has been observed
make prepara
middle of
south
the
those from
thelr
injures
for
more
froftage
or kills
from the
hat is
inter
outinue
Ruceess Is hoped
glock, ns of course,
into w
in
odate {it
going
con
early, while
to
time
/ACCONIM
closely to the
Artificial
Jdinovat
irri;
Louisiana
0G
the grom needs
nkled
nnd him
The
ROI
facing
and wit
magistraie woud the
ne and officials
around
the off
kKuee, amd
a stylo
Bronicle
formed a sm cirele
My, Lyall
book upon his
De REeR
the tree balanced
fal rote
ith
down the evidence w
graphic pen.~ London CO
wiole
A Trick of Trade.
That there are tricks in
shown
all trades
by a peculinr cirenmsiagnee
surrounding import of British
hams, bacon and salt pork into Italy,
which by law is prohibited, placing re
strictions upon the porcine products
of any country for sanitary freasons,
By simply making the request, most
countries have secured the set.
regulation in
But it is not geserally known
is
the
favor,
If a ham were packed
in a hermetically sealed tin, ft could
be passed as preserved meat, even if
the label frankly declared that the tin
contained an entire ham, This point
Las been successfully tested. Boston
Herald
Bicreles have made their way into
the British Musesum, the authorities
having ostablished a cyele stable in
the basement, for as many as a hun
CA
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
A Horse That Was Swallowed Alive by a
| Hair from His Own Tail
i From the Southern home of Senator
{Quay comes the following letter from
la veracious correspondent:
“Being an ex-soldier and having only
{fifteen months to serve to acquire a
{title to a quarter section of land, |
| went Florida in 1885 to put my
[plans nto exebution, Not being posted
jas to the landmarks, I had to hire a
settler to locate the land for me, and
as we had to go about eight miles
through woods over bad roads, with
no bri went horseback, and ia
stream I noticed that my
tall caught In old
pulling a hair the
aving the hair the
to
R'E, Wo
crossing n
friend's
pine stmnp,
tail and le
stump.
“AR you
Liorse's an
from
fast to
know, a horsehair
to a snake when in water,
up my mind to watch that particular
halr. Ro, after locating my land and
log house built, 1 took
started out on a hunt
rambles |
my friend
sure enough,
will turn
and 1 my:
getting a
gun and
durin my
stream
came to
and 1
there
that
and
horsehair
and
crossed,
the as big
feet
stump
snake
four
thumb aver
i 0 the
ontinued my
a rabbit,
Judge
\ find
nnd
goving
%it tis
stavepipe
I was
next week |
Roads
in South America.
becone : pn i
American
floats
gor sral at
government l t itself to
the
duty
in
of
Columbus from the oa
thedral in Havana to Was
there under the shadow or
it should rest forever”
Columb was a great
when living, and hi “remains” have
had a somewhat similar experience
According to the best anthorities
wax first buried at Valladolid, in
north central part of Spain. but
wane foon after iransferrod
arthusias Monastery of Las Cue
ar ane where the bones of is
Diego, the second admiral,
laid, In 1556 th bodies of both
father and son wore eghnmed and tak.
en over sea to Hispiniola San Deo.
mingol, and interred the cathedral
In 170540, on the on of that is
nnd to the French, tI relics were re
exhumed and transfeffed with great
state and solemnity td the cathedral
in Havana, their
Omaha Bee,
form is body
Christonhe:
the
bit
the
bods
vas,
son.
Were
painted on boards a
country roads that
with the firms which
For a neat and
u the panel is u
Refine tv 0
Avizoss Wells Tara Suddenly Hot.
The wells in parts of Arizona have
recently become producers of hot wa.
ter, and apprehension is felt by many
of the residents of the region affected
that they are about to become par-
ticipants in a grand voleanie drama,
in some of the wells the tempera-
ture of the water rose twenty degrees
in a single night. In a few the phe.
nomenon disappeared soon after ita
appearance, In a majority of cases,
however, the wells fairly steam from
their newly acquired The first
known of this cu state ‘of affairs
was a report that the we at Mart
Bouthern Pacific Railroad,
thirty miles south of Phoenix, had sud.
denly hot
It was days the
the ph
dozen miles wes
well
100)
heat.
rious
ells
copa, on the
become
four
enomenon
reafter
first was
that
noticed a
t of that place. A
showed a temperature of
degrees. No difference is
wells in
ity of Phoenix.
line of
text
ane
nearly
tue immediate viein
subterranean heat
direction of the
wave
general
Mountains, a
volcanic
Hala Mo
COD
bbwons of cop
to incl
age like thas
For platinum
conductors, thew
cylinder 21; feet
as Ye
the old
8 copper
inclined 15 degrees from the
The “earth” is oy a
oppor ribbon sunk in a well.
this new system
hat of the ordinary
giout stems of copper.
The Smallest Public
The parish of Wiggenhall 8t
Mary, Norfolk. England. has the bonor
a ploncer position among rural jar.
Ite parish council is the frst
to float a public loan. Corporation
stock ix generally Issued in large sums.
but the Wiggenhall consols only run
to the modest sum of £2,000, which the
parish needs for "i new burying
ground. It is to be hoped that our
financiers will not all speak once,
or the resources of the city may be ane
duly strained. Westminster Gazette,
made
volute
The
one
with
is abous
third t
thick
system
Loan,
of
ishies,
At one time it was the custom on
Ash "ednesday to appoint an official |
of the Eauglish palace to crow the
hours of the day like a cock. The
covk-crower was a salaried officer a
the court as late as 1823,
The stars on the United Sites cole
60 Son six-belcied, wilie the